Democrats are in a pickle. Their gerrymandering edge may vanish, allowing at least a dozen congressional seats to fall into Republican hands. It all depends on what the Supreme Court does now that it has heard oral arguments again in a case tackling the legitimacy of the 1956 Voting Rights Act head-on. This measure is a classic example of sneaky lawmakers concealing a sinister design beneath an innocuous title. The legislation offered judicial partisans the excuse they needed to combat “historic discrimination” by redrawing congressional district boundaries in ways that granted leftists a sizable electoral windfall. Under its provisions, special…
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In a political world where every headline seems designed to divide us, sometimes something happens that makes you stop and say: Did that really just happen? Last month, President Trump announced a nearly half-billion-dollar funding surge for America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities — schools that have produced generations of doctors, lawyers, engineers, entrepreneurs and changemakers. Yes, you read that right: $500 million more for HBCUs, boosting their total federal funding to a record-breaking $1.34 billion, a 48% increase in one year. Funding more than doubled for tribal colleges as well. That’s not pocket change. That’s not symbolism. That’s real money going…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday proposed the swap of Ukrainian drones for American Tomahawk missiles, yet President Trump signaled he’s not ready to commit to providing Kyiv with the long-range weapons it says it needs. The two leaders met at the White House for the third time since Mr. Trump took office for the second time as they anticipate the momentum of the Israel-Hamas conflict’s end will lead them to the finish line of the Russia-Ukraine war. Mr. Zelenskyy made his case that Ukraine needs the Tomahawks because it has its own drones and is ready to offer the U.S. a trade deal. “Ukraine has … thousands of our production drones, but we don’t…
How did California manage to spend $24 billion in taxpayer money to address homelessness over the past years, only for the problem to get substantially worse? The state has not offered any explanation since that figure was revealed in a state audit released earlier this year. But the arrest of two California men on Thursday suggests that at least some of the money may have been stolen through fraud. Cody Holmes, the former chief financial officer at a downtown Los Angeles-based developer of affordable housing, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with mail fraud. In a separate…
Interest payments on the U.S. debt are the second-largest part of government spending. The U.S. government ran a slightly smaller budget shortfall in the most recent year thanks to higher tariff revenue — but the national debt still rose to another record high, and shows no sign of slowing. The annual budget deficit slipped to $1.76 trillion in fiscal-year 2025 from $1.82 trillion in the prior year, the U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday. The government’s fiscal year runs from October through September. In fiscal 2025, the government raised $5.24 trillion in taxes, but it spent $7.01 trillion. The latest annual…
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton was reportedly indicted Thursday over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. The Associated Press reported: Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton was charged Thursday in a federal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The investigation into Bolton, who served for more than a year in President Donald Trump’s first administration before being fired in 2019, burst into public view in August when the FBI searched his home in Maryland and his office in Washington for classified records he may have held…
Ideologues foisting the harmful lies of transgenderism onto kids should be laughed — and prosecuted — out of polite society. Then the transgender fever fully subsides, it won’t be because of how celebrities like Kiera Knightley respond to idiotic questions about it. But it’s telling when celebrity windsocks no longer feel obligated to pay ritual fealties to social contagions, because social contagions rely on ritual fealties to survive. In a Decider interview published last week, Knightley — who voices a character in a forthcoming audiobook recording of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series — was asked if she was “aware” of the fury…
“So for years and years it sat, and every time somebody rides over the beautiful bridge going right to the Lincoln Memorial, its so beautiful, they literally say something supposed to be here.” A traffic circle in Virginia located directly across the river from the Lincoln Memorial is being eyed by President Donald Trump for a new project dubbed “Arc de Trump.” The arch, which resembles Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, would mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, per the New York Daily News. Trump said at a White House dinner late Wednesday, “It’s going to be really…
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that Pritzker’s rhetoric was “directly contributing to domestic terrorists attacking our brave law enforcement.” Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker suggested on Sunday that state prosecutors may look into the actions of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Department of Homeland Security. In an interview with FOX 32 Chicago, Pritzker said he’s been in talks with the state’s attorney general and local prosecutors about how to respond to supposed misconduct. “We’re talking to the state’s attorneys and Attorney General to see how they can go at this because what…
Conservatives are nowhere to be seen in a Harvard University course focused on black women in politics, according to a copy of the syllabus obtained by The College Fix. ‘History 167: Race, Gender, and the Law Through the Archive’ praises First Lady Michelle Obama, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, and Vice President Kamala Harris for having “left their mark on 21st-century politics and grassroots organizing.” The course says it will examine black women in the 20th century who “shap[ed] politics, grassroots organizing, the legal profession, and higher education during Jim (Jane) Crow and beyond.” Topics include “reproductive rights,” “non-binary people,” and…